Reckoning up the number of pillars supporting the building they were found to exceed 300. The Hall of the Buddha stood up high in the center, and the inscription board above was written _Taikwang myung jun_, “Great light glorious palace.” To the left was the _Sun Tang_ or study hall, while to the right was the _Oon-chip_ or assembly hall. The gate was marked _Chak-kwang Moon_, Hidden Light and the outer gate was called _Panya_ or Likeness gate. Beyond this again was the _Hai-tal Moon_. There was a bell-pavilion also which was called the _Pup-noi-kak_, Kiosk of Buddha’s Thunder. The kitchen was named _Hyang-juk_, Kitchen House. There was a pond on the east side, where lotus flowers were planted; and on the west was a garden-park where flowers and trees grew. Behind the _Cheung-jun_ palace the sacred books were in keeping, and this house was called _Hai-Jang Chun_ or Sea Covering Hall. Also a pagoda was built of thirteen stories called _sul-to-pa_, Buddhist pagoda. Within it were placed the accumulated sari and the newly translated Wun-gak sutra. The palaces, halls, studies, guest-rooms, stores, kitchens, outhouses, had each their particular place. The whole was magnificent and well constructed, and the ornaments were lavish, imposing, beautiful, all in keeping and fair to see. Its equal was nowhere to be found. Also the drums, gongs, etc., necessary for the service, and other useful implements were abundantly provided for. Gale: _Pagoda_, p. 10. [4]Gale finds that the history of the erection of the Seoul pagoda was originally inscribed upon the turtle-borne slab that accompanies it. Of the pagoda itself, he says: 1. The Pagoda was therefore built in 1464-1466 A.D. 2. The builder was King Se-jo, who reigned from 1456-1468 and all the workmen were Koreans. 3. The form of it was modelled after the Pagoda in Pung Tuk County, which had already been standing nearly a hundred years, and had been built by Chinese workmen. There is no evidence that this pagoda had ever been brought from Peking though it finds its final resting place now in Tokyo. 4. It was built to commemorate the excellence of the Wungak Sutra from which it takes its name. 5. It is by far the most interesting Buddhist monument in Korea. p. 22. [5]The list of the thirty head-temples follows: